01 - The Only Way Up02 - Everybody Bleeding03 - The Only Way Up (IKONIKA remix)04 - Everybody Bleeding (KINGDOM remix ft SHYVONNE)05 - The Only Way Up (CUBIC ZIRCONIA remix)06 - The Only Way Up (CUBIC ZIRCONIA instrumental)

A1 - The Only Way UpA2 - Everybody BleedingB1 - The Only Way Up (IKONIKA remix)B2 - Everybody Bleeding (KINGDOM remix)

The label’s second release: “The Only Way Up” EP by Toronto-based producer Egyptrixx.

Egyptrixx makes celestial club music; jeep jams for a Saturn desert. Over the years his tracks have called on diverse styles from booty house to dubstep, but all of them share an exhilarating wrong-but-right tension – a shifting balance between melodic and dissonant, rapturous and antisocial.

At 122bpm, the EP’s lead track “The Only Way Up” is the ultimate subtle banger. A clattering rimshot beat plays host to immense swelling synths that build until breaking point, before a dangerously low sub drives the track to sheer soundsystem ecstasy. Hypnotic, mesmerising, punishing… nothing sounds quite like it.

The EP’s second original track takes a more direct approach. With its elastic bassline and warped synths “Everybody Bleeding” is like a futurist take on DJ Deeon’s “Rubberband Bass” - definitely a riddim for the world’s tougher dancefloors.

The digital release includes three very special remixes:
Hyperdub’s first lady Ikonika reinterprets “The Only Way Up” as a soaring, blissed-out piece of synth’n'bass, permeated by choir pads and her signature emotive Moog.
Night Slugs’ NYC representative Kingdom goes in hard, borrowing the celestial synths of “Everybody Bleeding” to put together a MAW “Ha”-sampling ballroom club mix, featuring an incredibly ominous original vocal from his collaborator Shyvonne (we call this remix the “Space Ha”).
Finally Cubic Zirconia take “The Only Way Up” to dreamy new territory, entrapping Egyptrixx’s synths in classically jackin 808s while their singer Tiombe Lockhart provides the EP’s second original vocal.

NS002 – Egyptrixx – The Only Way Up EP
Digital 12"
01 - The Only Way Up02 - Everybody Bleeding03 - The Only Way Up (IKONIKA remix)04 - Everybody Bleeding (KINGDOM remix ft SHYVONNE)05 - The Only Way Up (CUBIC ZIRCONIA remix)06 - The Only Way Up (CUBIC ZIRCONIA instrumental)